Yes I did on March 20th and got minimal feedback
It is a challenge to deal with these issues when they feel foreign. Looking back on your March 20 query,
@sail sfbay provided an excellent primer for the boat owner with limited knowledge about choosing the right prop for a boat. It specifically addressed prop size. (reprinted below for your support).
It is up to the boat owner to check his boat and do the measurements to validate that his boat can accept the prop that is being offered. Only you can use the tape measure to judge the distance from your prop shaft to your hull bottom. With the correct information the prop folk can provide competent answers as to how big a prop you should have.
Clearance is a critical issue. Your statement that only 1/8'th to 1/4 inch is the gap indicates the prop diameter is too large for your boat.
It is your boat and you can choose to address it or ignore it.
Once this resistance is known, engine and gearbox specifications can be combined with maximum propeller diameter (clearance beneath the boat is typically 12% of the prop’s own diameter) to determine the prop’s minimum requirements. The vessel’s ‘duty cycle’, which is simply a judgement as to whether a boat is to be used for heavy or light commercial or pleasure purposes, then also influences a designer’s final specification.
Propeller diameter is first decided by the type of boat. A large-diameter slow-revving propeller is the most efficient type but this won’t provide the necessary acceleration to get a sports cruiser onto the plane. Acceleration is achieved by increasing the rotation speed, which usually means a smaller diameter propeller. The fact that many modern sports cruisers have limited propeller clearance space is another reason for fitting smaller diameter propellers.
To accommodate the loss of thrust from the smaller diameter, the pitch is increased to give more thrust from the propeller’s movement through the water rather than from the blade area. It is in fact a combination of the three elements: diameter, pitch and rpm that provides the thrust at the given speed of the boat. The higher the speed of the boat, the higher the pitch should be. Also the higher the pitch, the greater the efficiency of the propeller. Higher pitch can be used by selecting higher gear ratios, but this is not really viable for most outdrive powered craft due to the small choice of ratios available and in this case it is usually necessary to work with the supplied ratio.